Missing girl returns home, but questions remain why she disappeared

MILWAUKEE -- Tatiana Clayton's family cried tears of joy outside her father's north side home Monday. The 13-year-old disappeared a week ago, but showed up at her father's home early in the morning.

\"I didn't ask her nothing, just hugged her and cried,\" father Dennis Rodgers said.

Clayton was last seen November 25th when she was released from Martin Luther King Junior Elementary School. Her family said Tatiana had been suspended and the school contacted her guardian. The family says she told the school she didn't want to go home and wasn't allowed on the school bus.

\"I thought the school had the responsibility to at least call back the guardian and let them know that she said she wasn't coming home and that we'll hold her here until someone is able to come pick her up,\" Rodgers said.

But Milwaukee Public Schools refutes that story.

In a statement released Monday, the district said \"[Clayton] was not suspended. The student was released during the school day with the consent of a parent/guardian. Our preliminary investigation has found no evidence that she returned at dismissal time or was turned away from the school bus.\"

CBS-58 tried several times going to Tatiana's home where she lived with other family members, but no one answered the door.